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Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Economist, Author, and Consultant

Founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy where she directs the “Hidden Brain Drain”—a task force of 35 global companies committed to fully realize female and minority talent over the lifespan. She also heads up the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction books and her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University.

Women now enter the workforce at the same rates as men, but career pause dooms their ascendency. Watch the Founder and President of the Center for Work-Life Policy Sylvia Ann Hewlett discuss creative solutions for...